Judge Cynthia Valenzuela sua sponte remanded an unlawful detainer case removed by the tenant on federal-question grounds, holding that unlawful detainer actions do not arise under federal law and federal defenses cannot support removal under Caterpillar v. Williams.
Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered serial ADA plaintiff German Perez — who had filed more than ten construction-related accessibility cases in the prior year — to show cause why the court should not decline supplemental jurisdiction over his state-law Unruh Act claim, channeling it back to California s
Magistrate Judge Tse denies plaintiff Anthony McGee’s motions to seal “all juvenile court records,” for default judgment after the case was already dismissed on the merits, and for Rule 60 relief from judgment, while also denying defendants’ request for a vexatious-litigant pre-filing order on proce
The court remanded a quiet-title and declaratory-relief action concerning San Diego real property to state court under the forum-defendant rule, ruling that the California-based defendants could not remove the case to federal court even though diversity existed and rejecting the defendants’ wa
Magistrate Judge Spero grants HealthRIGHT 360 judgment on the pleadings on the survivor claim brought by the daughter of a man who fatally overdosed in its San Francisco sober-living program, holding that California law forbids dressing up a wrongful-death claim as a survivor cause of action.
Judge Martínez-Olguín refuses to send a Song-Beverly lemon-law case back to Alameda County Superior Court, holding that Jaguar Land Rover’s 30-day removal clock did not start until it obtained the underlying sales contract showing the amount in controversy.
Judge Anne Hwang granted plaintiff’s motion to remand a foreclosure suit to Ventura County Superior Court after he amended his complaint to drop federal claims, rejecting the defendants’ fraudulent-joinder argument as not meeting the Ninth Circuit’s heavy burden under Grancare.